Look at the picture: public transport (trams), bicyclists and pedestrians, but no cars.
This is the nation that gives baby boxes to all new parents.

Gives them a role, structure, spending money, regular food ... make sense.

Finland has also tested basic-income. And BTW, their foreign minister Pekka Haavisto has openly criticized the Baghdad attack: "I am above all worried about the situation of ordinary people. These kinds of clouds of war in the heavens mean no good for everyone."

But don't have enough to survive. It will motivate people to not be poor!"

It's socialism for a country to take care of its citizens!

Now, excuse me, I have to go to church. Preaching on Matthew 25, verses 31 through 46. I hope it's not more of that liberal claptrap. We need a good old fire-and-brimstone smiting sermon!

That's half a million houses being built in one year. That's several million people leaving the unemployment line to build houses.

Then another 400,000 or so joining the workforce (assuming that 80% find jobs)

Houses prices would shoot up to, giving us all a better nest egg. That's always good.

We orta try it. Couldn't hurt.

Here in the U.S.A. there's this fantasy that a person with severe mental health issues and substance abuse problems can be sobered up and in a week or two get a job washing dishes at the Olive Garden or cleaning bathrooms at Walmart, and that this kind of employment will somehow "fix" them.

It's the fucking "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" idiocracy. We think we are doing good by giving homeless people boots with straps.

But it's actually less expensive and, more importantly the moral high ground, to give homeless people secure housing and the sorts of social services that will keep them at least somewhat functional even if they remain unemployable.

We currently treat chronic homelessness in the most expensive way possible -- in our jails, prisons, and emergency rooms.